Tag: politics

  • The Register: India’s top telco plans cloud PCs for its 475 million subscribers

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/asia_tech_news_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: India’s top telco plans cloud PCs for its 475 million subscribers Feedly Summary: PLUS: China bans AI leaders from visiting USA; Acer data leak suspect cuffed; and more Asia In Brief India’s top telco Reliance Jio , which boasts over 460 million subscribers, will soon introduce a cloud…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Structured data extraction from unstructured content using LLM schemas

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/28/llm-schemas/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Structured data extraction from unstructured content using LLM schemas Feedly Summary: LLM 0.23 is out today, and the signature feature is support for schemas – a new way of providing structured output from a model that matches a specification provided by the user. I’ve also upgraded both…

  • Hacker News: DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers

    Source URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agencies-push-back-elon-musks-email-ultimatum-rcna193439 Source: Hacker News Title: DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text discusses a controversial email sent by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, orchestrated by Elon Musk, directing federal employees to report their weekly accomplishments. The…

  • Hacker News: Amazon blew Alexa’s shot to dominate AI, according to employees

    Source URL: https://fortune.com/2024/06/12/amazon-insiders-why-new-alexa-llm-generative-ai-conversational-chatbot-missing-in-action/ Source: Hacker News Title: Amazon blew Alexa’s shot to dominate AI, according to employees Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text discusses Amazon’s struggles with the development and rollout of a generative AI version of Alexa, emphasizing organizational dysfunction, lack of adequate resources, and competition with other…

  • Hacker News: S1: The $6 R1 Competitor?

    Source URL: https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/03/s1 Source: Hacker News Title: S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel AI model that demonstrates significant performance scalability while being cost-effective, leveraging concepts like inference-time scaling and entropix. It highlights the implications of such advancements for AI research, including geopolitics…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : DeepSeek Serves as a Warning About Big Tech

    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/opinion/deepseek-ai-big-tech.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: DeepSeek Serves as a Warning About Big Tech Feedly Summary: The arrival of DeepSeek shows us the competitive weaknesses of America’s tech giants. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses how the emergence of a new AI model from the Chinese company…

  • Hacker News: US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek

    Source URL: https://www.404media.co/senator-hawley-proposes-jail-time-for-people-who-download-deepseek/ Source: Hacker News Title: US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a proposed piece of legislation by Senator Josh Hawley that would criminalize the import and export of AI technology to and from China. The bill raises…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Baroness Kidron’s speech regarding UK AI legislation

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/29/baroness-kidron-speech/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Baroness Kidron’s speech regarding UK AI legislation Feedly Summary: Baroness Kidron’s speech regarding UK AI legislation Barnstormer of a speech by UK film director and member of the House of Lords Baroness Kidron. This is the Hansard transcript but you can also watch the video on parliamentlive.tv.…